Tree. Leaves spirally arranged, entire, inconspicuously penninerved. Cymes axillary and solitary; peduncle completely covered with obtuse small thick spirallly arranged bracts forming alveoli, from the upper 2 or 3 of which rise short branches, these articulated with the peduncle and branched dichotomously, each branch bearing at the end a cluster of 3-5(-8) sessile bisexual flowers. Calyx thick-cupular, shortly subimbricately 5-parted. Petals (4-)5, valvate, oblong, with a longitudinal ridge and the apex inflexed inside. Stamens (4-)5; filaments fleshy, broadened upwards, with a dense clavate-penicillate pubescence distally; anther cells almost horseshoe-shaped, diverging at the base, introrsely and longitudinally dehiscent, affixed at the apex. Ovary elongate-conical; stigma a fleshy reversed cup; ovules 2, pendent from near the apex of the cavity. Fruit fusiform; exocarp thin, pulpy; endocarp rather thin though firm, fibrous-corky, extending as a thick longitudinal pad (similar to a second cavity) inside, finally with a lengthwise split from the base up to the middle. Seed 1.
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